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I highly recommend that you get any genetics book published in the last 5 years. This will be a good ref. and a source for some topics. I have placed at least three such textbooks in the MSLC on the Busch campus. My personal favorite is Genetics by Robert Brooker.

In addition to my responsibilities at Rutgers (www.lifesci.rutgers.edu/~mcguire). I have numerous hobbies and interests that I can talk about (or bore you with) at length. These include woodworking, stained glass manufacture, reading, singing, elderberry wine and beer making, genealogy, yoga and toy making. I also grow 12 different varieties of garlic, pawpaws, and some incredibly beautiful Dahlias. Flowers, after all, make you very happy (http://human-nature.com/ep/articles/ep03104132.html).I can proudly say that I am one of the very few people in the world who has built a coracle, erected a yurt and assembled a composting toilet. (I am probably one the few people who would every want to!!). My most recent hobbies are singing and truffle making. I had the worst music teacher in the world in elementary school. Despite her insistence that I could not sing and should never open my mouth - I now take voice lessons and occasionally sing in public. (You should hear me do “Not Dead Yet!!!). I have a dedicated set of Truffle tasters who insist that will taste each batch until I "get them perfect". The dog's name is Comet. I am faculty advisor for the Association of Undergraduate Geneticists (AUG) and proudly serve on the Faculty Board for the Livingston Theater Company (www.rultc.org).

“This course has altered my view of Genetics as applied to my everyday life. It has made focus on seeing a lot of things most people miss. I love that you taught us everyday examples that relate to what we were studying, i.e., the triploid bananas and the red hair quirks.”

Yes it made me think, no ponder, a great deal. This course has allowed me to hold some very interesting conversations and express to other people the mind-boggling concept of a sequence of DNA containing the basis for all life. The course has also called upon knowledge from other courses I have taken . It has been a challenge enthusiastically accepted and has enhanced my experience at Rutgers more than any other course I have taken thus far.

I just wanted to tell you that the GA classes really did prepare me for the lab. I didn't take the research class last semester but began working here in XXXXXX lab this summer. Considering I had never worked in a lab (other than lab courses like chem., bio, etc) I feel I was very prepared to perform the procedures. Granted I'm the type of person that can actively do things better if I know how they work, I think you, Bill, and Dr. Brenneman did a thorough and great job preparing us. Reading the scientific paper in GAII helped a LOT. Just wanted to say good job and thank you!

“You know, too many people equate science with its high-tech trappings, - if it does not come in computers, God knows what power microscopes, the latest DNA dyes , it must be magic, superstition, old-wives tale nonsense. But science is at core a method, a rational mode of investigating the world, and the gadgetry is secondary. Sure the equipment is great - it opens up more of the world to our cognitive digestion, makes it amenable to our analysis - but if aspects of the world are already amenable to analysis and experimentation, with just our naked eyes and hands, then the equipment isn’t all that necessary , is it”. The Mendelian Lamp Case. Paul Levinson (2002)

And here’s the thing. It wasn’t exciting at all . It wasn’t actually altogether comprehensible. Above all, it didn't answer any of the questions that the illustration stirred up in a normal inquiring mind: Howdid we end up with a Sun in the middle of our planet? And if it is burning away down there why isn’t the ground under our feet hot to the touch? And why isn’t the rest of the interior melting - or is it? And when the core at last burns itself out, will some of the Earth slump into the void, leaving a giant sinkhole on the surface? And how do you know this? Howdidyoufigure it out?